Traffic will be disrupted, Friday, March 25, in buses and trams. Employees of the company are the first covered by the reorganization of work related to the opening to the competition of the historical monopoly of the Paris Transport Régie.
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The RATP unions had promised: after their punch strike of February 18, which paralyzed a large part of the Parisian public transport network, there would be a new social rendez-vous approaching the approach. spring. This will be made on Friday, March 25, with a new day of mobilization of employees of the Transportation Régie, which looks less disturbed than the previous one.
The RATP management indicated, Wednesday, March 23, that the traffic would be almost normal on the underground rail network (metro and rer), with “slight disturbances” on five lines (the metros 2, 5, 8, 9 and 13). On the other hand, the surface network will be more affected, with a tram on two or three (at peak hours) and one third of the bus lines interrupted, 50% of vehicles flowing where the service is maintained.
So it’s a knock-on strike in relation to the previous one, where the metro had been paralyzed and where the main engine of anger was the question of wages. There are the bus and tram drivers who mobilize against the expected effects of competition, which will concern the first place the 16,000 bus machinists and 1,000 traminots of the Régie (out of 45,000 employees of the public institution RATP).
“Machinists will lose six days of leave a year”
The company is in the process of negotiating with the unions on a new work organization that will put in place when switching into a competitive system of the RATP bus historic network, the 1 er January 2025 (2029 for trams, but they are included in the negotiation). At that date, machinists will have tilted either at the competitor (Transdev or Keolis, who marked their interest in this market), either in RATP Cap Ile-de-France, a new subsidiary of the RATP specially created to respond to calls d offers.
But all must comply with a “territorialized social framework” (CST), whose work organization characteristics are better-raising than those of the collective sector of the sector, but less protective for employees than those in force at RATP. The new work organization will come into force on the 1 July
“The whole issue of the negotiations, which must end in April, is to bring our homemade rules closer to this CST,” says Jean Agulhon, the RATP DRH. This explains the stroke of the strike and the attitude of the unions, which immediately reject the proposals of management. “Machinists will have to work forty minutes more per day than today and they will lose six days of leave a year”, details Bertrand Hammache, Central CGT delegate. Employees also fear an increase in services with cuts, longer and fragmented. “On the bus division, we reached 70% strikers, Note Arle Lamasse, Delegate UNSA RATP. It’s a clear answer to the Group’s management.”
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